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Re:Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice... by username90 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:16PM (#21307216)
> And yes “the problem” we solved, a mobile app that could route field technicians dynamically at a level of quality we needed we did solve.

Just look for people good at handling split data updates and ownership, there are a lot of people working on that kind issues on the backend, I really doubt you find more mobile devs with those skills than backend devs with it.

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Re:Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice... by scarface74 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:20PM (#21307239)
What makes you think that the two are distinct?
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Re:Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice... by username90 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:39PM (#21307342)
What two are distinct? Yes you sometimes have conflicting data on two machines when you work on mobile apps, but that is the core of a lot of distributed computing problems. So if you only look for those skills in mobile devs you will miss out on a lot of people with relevant experience.
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